Kingfishers

[postsaurischian]

                         



                         





                         



                         



                         

                         

[Jetoar]

Wonderful kingfisher  . kaiyodo have done a good work in this figure .

[brontodocus]

What an amazing and dynamic, beautiful little figure this is! It's wonderful how Kaiyodo always manages to make such life-like mini scenes with a convincing water effect on a bottle cap base that's, how large, like 30 mm in diameter?

[Varanus]

I'm stunned, that figure is too amazing!

[Ana]

Oh, too beautiful!!   
What a lovely figure, it's almost pain for me to not have it in collection 
Big congratulations for such a beauty!

[postsaurischian]

Series:   Nature of Japan Vol.1
                                     _{(This is figure No.04)}





                         

                         

                         











                         

                         

                         

[widukind]

Wonderful pics of a real beautie

[brontodocus]

Exactly! If you had left the figure there I wonder how many passengers would have taken a photo of it, too - just to tell their friends "...and you wouldn't believe how small it was! Never thought kingfishers were that tiny!". 

[Ana]

Beautiful model and wonderful pictures!   

[stargatedalek]

lovely pictures of a lovely model

[postsaurischian]

  Thank you for the comments widukind, Andre, Anna & stargatedalek!

[Jetoar]

One of the best replicas of this specie  .

[postsaurischian]

 
                               This Vienna Bronze figure was made around the turn of the century in Vienna / Austria.
                             The founder of the best known bronze manufacture of these days, Franz Xaver Bergmann
                                         lived from 1861 to 1936, which is about the time period we're talking about.
                                                  My guess is 1910 - 1920, but I'm definitely not an expert on this.
                        The figure is pretty heavy and incredibly beautiful. I hope I could capture this a bit in these pics.
                                                   I found it at a flea market in Zürich / Switzerland. Lucky me!


                         



                         

                         



                         




                                        compared to the figures of Nature Techni Colour (left) and Kaiyodo (center):

[bmathison1972]

Nice! These are the kind of gems I love to find!

[Beetle guy]

Very nice piece!!

[bmathison1972]

Kaiyodo crested kingfisher: